Great meat grinder and sausage stuffer!
This meat grinder has worked perfect for what I need it for! If you are planning to do hours of meat grinding and sausage stuffing or anything with no breaks you might want something bigger and more expensive because this will get hot with extended use. However for what I used it for it was perfect! It ground up a 10 pound pork shoulder in a few minutes it was awesome! Make sure you prep your meat properly and this grinder should handle it no problem. It also did awesome making sausage as well! The only thing that I am curious about, and this could have been because of my mixture I was trying to push through, is when stuffing sausage and you have no more to push through it does kinda just sit in the sausage nozzle, but thinking logically that makes sense since there's nothing behind it making it go through. This might be typical of all sausage stuffers and just have to understand there will be a bit of meat waste. The weight of the grinder is great, not too heavy, but sturdy enough on the counter. The shape of the back is great it makes it an easy place to hold onto so when you have to push down to get some things like cheese mix ins for sausage through it wont tip. It is loud, which I have seen some people complain about, but I mean realistically come on of course a grinder is going to be loud lol. That's something you have to expect with machines like this, I can't imagine there is one that would be quiet since its a motor and probably a fan to keep the motor cool. Overall great machine, worked awesome for what I needed, one tip I would give is get a bottle cleaner wand (like those silicone ones people use to clean baby bottles with) to have an easier time cleaning all the pieces as some of them I could not reach all the way into with a sponge, but the bottle cleaner worked perfect! (Also don't let any meat sit on the parts for long, rinse ASAP it will be much easier to clean)
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Highly Rated with a Low Price
There are dozens of meat grinders out there. This was the only one mentioned on "best meat grinder" lists that was under $50. As we compared models this one had everything we were looking for: plenty of power...a reverse feature when things jam that you don't always find in this price range...with a stainless steel blade and grinder plates. We had never heard of the brand but with good reviews we decided to take a risk. It works like a charm. It grinds meat effortlessly and quickly. It's sturdy. Quiet. Easy to put together and clean. We've had a hand grinder. I wish we had purchased this electric grinder years ago. We are now buying beef and pork when it's on sale and freshly grinding all of our meat for hamburgers, pork burgers, breakfast sausage, chili, tacos, and casseroles. The frosting on the cake is that we are easily saving $2 to $3 per pound on all of our ground meats and getting a better product! You have no worries with this Gourmia GMG525 Electric Meat Grinder!
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Judith Cook
January 07, 2026
It grinds very well
It works really and I would recommend it.
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anthony greene
March 20, 2020
Powerful, durable, easy to clean kitchen appliance
I considered several different brands before I selected the STX international as the right grinder for my needs. I required a machine which had enough power to grind a percentage of chicken bone along with meat in order to prepare a raw food diet for my Bengal cats. This unit has between 600-800watts of power under load, which I correctly assumed would be adequate for my needs. This grinder makes short work of chicken drums/wings etc. no problem.The grinding parts are cast aluminum and clean up beautifully in super hot soapy water. I read the instructions carefully prior to use so as to avoid discoloration and damage to the parts for their first washing and first assembly. As the manual recommends, I keep each blade in a separate plastic container with *Its Mated Cutting Aperture*. According to the manual, this will keep each blade sharper and will extend blade life. I liberally dose each cutting aperture and blade with olive oil to prevent rust. In my opinion, this is a high-quality appliance which will, with proper care and informed maintenance, perform for many years perfectly. As an added bonus, I registered my product online and received a 3 year manufacturers warranty for my trouble. An excellent value included in the price of the machine.**quick update** If you are using this appliance to prepare a raw chicken cat food diet, I strongly advise you to use chicken that is still frozen. Not deep frozen solid, but still somewhat 'crispy'. Otherwise you will end up with clogs and this makes the whole procedure much more time-consuming.Overall, I am incredibly satisfied with this appliance. It is user friendly, grinds boneless beef and pork as though they were marshmallows and for the first time in my life I was able to have a hamburger at slightly under medium temperature because I ground the beef myself from lean, delicious sirloin! As I said, I purchased this item to make a raw diet for cats---but now my husband is after me to make homemade pork sausages every weekend for breakfast! Life's good.
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